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Artificial intelligence
What works in production, what stalls in pilot, and what the running cost looks like once the demo ends. Written for teams deciding where to spend next year.
Live from South Africa
Banking platforms at scale. Sensor networks reading a mine floor. Cloud migrations delivered on a thin budget. Control rooms holding the line every night. Almost none of it gets told by the people who did the work. NexTechSA hands them the microphone.
What we cover
Every piece comes from someone who has run the system, carried the pager or signed off the design. No vendor press releases dressed up as news.
What works in production, what stalls in pilot, and what the running cost looks like once the demo ends. Written for teams deciding where to spend next year.
How teams here design, ship and run software. Architecture choices, migrations, developer practice, and the bill at the end of the month.
Sensors and edge devices, drones and autonomous systems, digital twins. New technology, and the point where AI starts making the decision.
Physical and cyber, treated as one problem. Video analytics, control rooms, identity, response. Lessons from sites where the threat is not theoretical.
Power, connectivity, data centres and the programmes holding them together. Building at scale in a country where the grid argues back.
Latest
Three pieces on the state of South African technology, written from the operator seat.
Most South African AI pilots die between the demo and the budget meeting. The reason is rarely the model.
Read →Physical and cyber security still sit in separate rooms with separate budgets. Attackers stopped drawing the line years ago.
Read →Constraint made South African engineers unusually good at resilience. Here is how to turn that into an export.
Read →Why this exists
San Francisco, London and Shenzhen decide what technology means. Meanwhile we build, we secure, we deploy at scale under pressure with less. South Africa has the engineers. It has the war stories.
What it lacks is the microphone.
Built for the people who build.
Who is behind this
Founder of NexTechSA. Consulting and development director at Excellion Group.
Thirty three years of building, securing and running systems in South Africa. I have carried the pager, signed off the design and defended the number in the budget meeting. NexTechSA exists because the people doing work like this rarely get to write about it.
The launch film
Thirty three seconds on why NexTechSA exists. Built in house, from the map up.
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